Improved felt shoe



PALMER & HOUG HTON Shed-Upper.

Patented Jan. 11, 1870 CHARLES W. PALMER, LYNN, AND CHARLES HOUGHTON,QE- BOSTON,

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Letters Patent N 98,793, dated January 11, 1870.

IMPROVED FELT SHOE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES W. PALMER, of Lynn, in the county of Essex,and CHARLES Honou- TOX, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, all in theState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Shoe; and we do herebydeclare that the following,

taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part ofthis specification, is a description of our invention, sufiicient toenable those skilled in the art to. practise it.

Letters Patent No. 87,063 were granted on the 16th day of February,1869, to one of us, (0. V. PALM R) for an improved felt shoe. Such shoeis made seamless, or in one uncut piece, (being felted into shape,) andthe sole is formed of greater thickness than the upper, to enable itto'sustain the greater wear, to which its position subjects it.

Our present invention relates to a seamless felted shoe, and to themanner of rendering the sole thereof enduring.

The invention consists in a seamless felt shoe, fashioned in one piece,and toauniforni thickness through out, to the sole of which is applied,by stitches or other suitable fastening-devices, an auxiliary or outersole, preferably made of leather, or of some other material more cuduriug than felt.

The drawing represents a shoe, embodying our improvement.

A shows a section on the line a x.

B is a side view of the shoe, the outer sole and npper being slightlybroken away, to show the fastenings.

a denotes the upper, and b, the sole, they being made of felt, or ratherof fibres felted into shape, to form a shoe, by the ordinary process offelting, as employed, for instance, in forming hats, there being nose'am or division of any kind. 7 k

The sole b is to be made of the same, or substantially the samethickness as the upper,

To its under surface is fastened the outer sole '0. As before observed,this outer sole is preferably made of leather, but leather, board, orother material, possessing the proper degree of rigidity andflexibility, may be used.

The sole may be formed of any degree of thickness, in accordance withthe wear to which. the shoe is to be subjected. It may be fastened bystitches running through and through, from the outer surface of theouter sole to the inner surface of the inner sole, (the sewing beingeffected by the well-known McKay solesewin r machine or nails e s orother fastenin s a a 7 a Y may be used.

.It willbe obvious that a shoe thus made is adapted to some extent toout-door wear, as well as a houseshoc, and that while it possesses thedesirable'qualities of softness, and capability of yielding to the formof the foot, the auxiliary sole renders it as enduring to wear as is anordinary leather shoe.

The freedom of the main part of the shoe from seams gives to it a neatappearance, and there are no stitches to break or give way.

.By making the wearing-sole of leather, or similar materiahthe shoe isbetter adapted to out-door walking, as the ontersole better withstandspressure upon stones, or other uneven substances.

It will be obvious that a heel maybe similarly applied to' the feltshoe, either in addition to the leather sole, or directly to the felt.

\Ve claim a shoe, made as described, that is, with its upper, a, and thepart b, which forms its inner sole,

felted in one seamless piece, and of uniform thickness,

and having an auxiliary or outer sole,.c, made of leather or othersuitable material.

' CHAS. W. PALMER.

OHS. HOUGHTON.

Witnesses: Fmsois GOULD, J. B. GRosBY.

